The quote is:
"We trained hard...but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form
up into teams we would be reorganized....I was to learn later in life that
we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method
it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion,
inefficiency, and demoralization.

                                    Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.

I have it on my office wall so I can read it every time there's talk or
reorganizing.





Ron May <[log in to unmask]>@asu.edu> on 03/25/2002 10:54:56 AM

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When I worked for the County of San Diego, the orientation packet included
a quote from a famous writer about how the workers toiled and trained so
hard to learn their jobs, only to have some new administrator come in and
change everything in the name of progress, which totally ruined the
organization, morale, and made work inefficient. The quote was 3,000 years
old from a Greek philosopher. Some things never change.

Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.